Comments on: Take the “baseball in Montreal” stuff with a big grain of salthttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/12/16/take-the-baseball-in-montreal-stuff-with-a-big-grain-of-salt/
Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball.Sun, 02 Aug 2015 22:25:39 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: cur68http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/12/16/take-the-baseball-in-montreal-stuff-with-a-big-grain-of-salt/comment-page-1/#comment-629504
Tue, 17 Dec 2013 02:34:24 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629504Fact: Beavers kill Mammoths.
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Tue, 17 Dec 2013 01:54:42 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629493Montreal deserve a team 100% San Antonio ?? Is that a joke?
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 20:49:55 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629409I currently live in OKC. It’s a fine place. The Thunder is well beloved in basketball…but I gotta admit, as much as is love to have a MLB team here, I’m not convinced we could support another major sports franchise. Tulsa is 1.5 hours away (average) and really can’t be considered part of the same metro area. The Rangers also consider this their territory.
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:45:28 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629383Agree on the NY comment. A third team in New Jersey makes sense, but the Yankees and Mets are never going to let that happen. Oklahoma City, which also draws in Tulsa has been very successful for the NBA and Indianapolis is another large market without a team. Both of those cities are probably better bets than Montreal.
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:19:46 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629362If Montreal isn’t under water.
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:17:59 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629360A fact which Cur would have pointed out for us if you hadn’t.
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:13:13 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629356I wasn’t very good at it. I would stand at the edge of a cliff gesturing wildly and screaming “Over here boy! Over here!” They never fell for it. Usually they would just raise the ends of their trunks between their tusks at me in a suggestive manner, turn, fart, and march away. We ate a lot of dog-sized horses instead. Of course, there were also dire beavers….but then, there still are.
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:09:05 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629354Well, then, I’m off, Raysfan. Houston is claiming 4-6.
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:05:36 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629351So you’re the reason mammoths are extinct? I should have known.
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:04:40 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629350Last I heard, about 1.4M in San Antonio, 2.3 with adding in Austin…but that’s like adding Orlando to the Tampa Bay population stats.

I mean no disrespect to San Antonio–loved it when I lived there.

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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:53:07 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629347I never went to elementary school. We were desperately poor, my father needed to stay home and shovel snow, and I had to go out on mammoth hunts with my big brother.
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:29:40 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629336They seem to have forgiven the hockey lockouts, but I daresay that hockey holds a place in Canada that dwarfs baseball and football combined.
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:57:44 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629310Pope Gator. Now there is a concept that’ll spin your mitre.
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:47:57 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629302Reblogged this on Pepper Allowed and commented:
And here’s the other side of the argument…
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:47:42 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629301There is no chance that ML baseball will return to Montreal. They didn’t even adequately support the Expos, so why in the world would they drop $1 billion+ to try it again? This is not happening.
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:28:26 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629285There is absolutely no way OG was still in elementary school in ’64.
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:26:58 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629282I wonder how the Expos would have turned out had the ’94 strike not happened. Check out that team, it was loaded. Wonder if our friends in the north were far more disillusioned with baseball than we were here in the US.
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:22:51 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629279No way the Yankees or Mets would allow a third NY team, but if there was another team in NY, I suspect it would immediately be more valuable than many current MLB franchises.

MLB really doesn’t have a credible bogeyman to threaten existing cities with. Used to be Denver and St. Petersburg. There’s a reason the A’s haven’t left Oakland yet, and are trying to find a home in the Bay Area.

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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:14:58 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629273What political party or movement is in favor of publicly financed stadiums? I’m not sure the pro/con positions are aligned with political parties so neatly.
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:11:53 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629266I’m not sure who you are disagreeing with about San Antonio. Pretty much the notes above (except the small market one) agree that it has potential. I’m not sure how they would qualify as market size. That can be deceptive. Houston is the fourth largest city, but because they are not close to other major cities they are like tenth on market size for broadcasts. I would think Austin/San Antonio combined would be at least as big or bigger.

But I do think the Astros and Rangers management would be against adding a team there.

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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:03:59 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629263Serious question, are you mentally challenged, or did you just never outgrow your class clown days from your elementary school classroom in 1964?
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:57:42 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629256That’s a pretty funny mistake. Whoops.
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:48:03 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629245I think it has something to do with the College of Cardinals imposing this blog on him.
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:46:44 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629244What does whether you live in an area or not have to do with the legitimacy of your commenting on corruption, malfeasance and terrible economic judgment? Innout, give it up. You have nothing whatsoever of substance to contribute to this discussion.
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:43:29 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629241It’s not so much that they’re easy to overlook as that they’re easy to trip over.
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:36:06 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629237Why do you pontificate so much?
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:31:07 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629233Actually, I spend quite a bit of time in the Metro Atlanta area. I’m very familiar with the problems that will be caused by the “specifics” of this deal. I know that Cobb County will be re-routing hundreds of millions of dollars from already underfunded public sectors into the sort of project that, at best, redirects economic activity from one area to another (as opposed to actually generating new economic activity).
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:24:42 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629229Are they really getting ripped off by the braves moving to a new ballpark? Do you or Craig live there (or in MTL) for that matter and know the specifics of each deal or the related consequences/benefits? Get serious
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:23:06 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629228Agreed. Those “socialists” in Quebec are pretty tight with their public funds… They could learn a thing or two from a “fiscally conservative” government like the one in Cobb Co.
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:22:17 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=507123#comment-629226The Rays have excellent fans but a crummy stadium in a bad location, with an inescapable lease–making a move really unlikely in the next decade+.

I’ve lived in San Antonio and currently live in OKC–no, they are not better markets than the Tampa Bay Area. They are also in other MLB teams’ spheres of influence, and would have to build appropriate stadiums too.

Again, any move anywhere would have to come with the hundreds of millions of $ in freebies for the ownership group–and in the case of the Rays, 15 years of rent for St Pete, etc (St Pete will not accept any sort of buy out).

The A’s are much freer to move than the Rays, but that isn’t happening either.